Flashcards: Agricultural gods

Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk [t͡ʃaːhk]) is the name of the Maya rain deity.

Freyr or Frey is one of the most important gods of Norse religion.

Mahākāla (Sanskrit: Mahākāla, Devanagari: महाकाल) is a deity common to Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism.

Saturn (Latin: Saturnus Latin pronunciation: [saˈtʊr.nʊs]) is a god in ancient Roman religion, and a character in myth.

Tlaloc (Classical Nahuatl: Tlāloc [ˈtɬaːlok]) was an important god in Aztec religion; as supreme god of the rains, he was also by extension a god of fertility and of water.

In Japan, Daikokuten (大黒天), the god of great darkness or blackness, or the god of five cereals, is one of the Seven Lucky Gods (Fukujin).

Rongo, with his brothers Tū, Tāne, Tāwhirimātea, Tangaroa and Haumia-tiketike, separated the primordial parents Rangi and Papa to allow daylight into the world.

Ninurta was a Sumerian and the Akkadian god of hunting and war.

Ukko, or Äijä or Äijö (Finnish: male grandparent, grandfather, old man), parallel in Estonian mythology to Uku, is the god of the sky, weather, harvest and thunder in Finnish mythology.

Veles (Cyrillic: Велес; Polish: Weles; Czech, Slovak: Veles; Old Russian and Old Church Slavonic: Велесъ; Belarusian: Вялес (Vialies)), also known as Volos (Russian: Волос) (listed as a Christian saint in Old Russian texts), is a major Slavic god of earth, waters, forests and the underworld.

Tammuz (Syriac: ܬܡܘܙ‎; Hebrew: תַּמּוּז, Transliterated Hebrew: Tammuz, Tiberian Hebrew: Tammûz; Arabic: تمّوز‎‎ Tammūz; Akkadian: Duʾzu, Dūzu; Sumerian: Dumuzid (DUMU.ZI(D), "faithful or true son") is a Sumerian god of food and vegetation, also worshiped in the later Mesopotamian states of Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia.

In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Liber /ˈlaɪbər/ ("the free one"; Latin: Līber [ˈliːbɛr]), also known as Liber Pater ("the free Father") was a god of viticulture and wine, fertility and freedom.

Enkimdu is the Sumerian god of farming, in charge of canals and ditches, a task assigned to him by the water god Enki during his organization of the world.